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As of 10AM it was 21.4F at my house. I love having a weather station in my back yard!! But it is that cold. The forecast is now a high of 32, and hopefully we will make it there. As of now, almost 3pm, its only gotten up to 23 degrees. So we are just plain cold and I’m not holding my breath on the 32.

The latest forecast puts us in freeze warnings until 10AM Wednesday, today is Sunday. I hope it doesn’t last that long, but who knows.

On the upside, the heat pump works. It has kept the house at a comfy 70F, where it was set at. Yes, I should probably lower the temperature, but I wasn’t even sure what I would have to do to keep the house warm. The good news is I didn’t have to do anything. I got up at 1AM (don’t ask!) and it was still comfy here in the house. I didn’t have to manually put it into emergency mode. So I’m glad to say the house works as best as I could have hoped for at this point. Yes, its still possible that the heating bill for this month may be high. But I would expect with this cold that the charges will be at least a bit higher.

But so far so good surviving the cold. I haven’t built a fire in the fireplace, but I do have the wood if I want to.

Well, we have a cold front coming in. Yesterday we had wind, today we were about 15-20 degrees colder. Tonight it is 8pm and my weather station says we are 36 degrees. I had the honor of taking garbage outside, and I can admit it is cold. Some areas have freeze warnings. I believe them.

We did have a cool/cold day, reaching mid 50’s. But it is definitely cold, and due to get colder tonight. Tomorrow at least we should be a bit warmer. We might be 10 degrees warmer during the day and be mid 30’s at night.

So the good news is Autumn is definitely here. Even the trees are cooperating and the Bradford pear trees have turned red. It’s been a lovely sight.

The nice part is the daytime weather this week should stay in the 60’s. So it feels lovely outside. Just cool enough to want a sweater. So much nicer than the heat this last summer. But I do admit the weather right now is comfortable.

Let’s see how the rest of autumn and winter go.

It is Sunday morning, the day our cold front arrives. How cold will we actually get remains to be seen. But the high for today was probably seen around midnight. This morning its in the 50’s, with high humidity, and a slow drop in temperature already.

The forecast right now says we have a chance of rain this afternoon, and I think it might happen. It might not be much rain, but we’ll take what we can get. But right now the forecast for tonight’s low ranges from 37 to 40. But from Monday thru Wednesday the lows vary more widely.

This table shows what I’ve found, always subject to change. It shows the website then the highs for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then the lows for the same three days.

So what temperatures will we hit? I don’t know. But it will be a definite change from what we have had.

But it sure does feel good to walk outside in the cool weather.

I’ll keep you posted.

I woke up this morning to a dark outside, at 9 AM, that looked much later than it was. It actually looked dark, turn the lights on outside dark. Luckily it began lightening up shortly thereafter. And the even better new – my weather station said we had 1.75 inches of rain since midnight. So we are getting rain. As I walked my dog on the wet road, I could see a few, okay just a few, blue spots in the sky. Now, at almost noon, those blue spots are harder to find. The sky is a blanket of clouds. More rain is expected today and over the next few days. I’m glad I fed my lawn before the rain began.

On a different note, the weather forecast for this weekend and early next week is growing colder. That above freezing night time temperature is dropping. The forecast for Monday is high of 44, low of 37. Yet Tuesday (Halloween) is now 51 for a high, and 31 for a low, but at least no rain. And next Wednesday, the start of November is also 51 for a high and 31 for a low. Will that actually happen? We shall see.

Hopefully this rain we had and are continuing to have will help our lakes and reservoirs fill back up. We can hope.

Last night, well after midnight, we got a storm through. It came with some thunder, though not much where I am, but it came with rain! Since I have my weather station set up I can tell you we got about 2 inches of rain, 1.92 to be exact (so says my weather station). Today we are planning on a balmy low to mid 80’s, they say 83. Either way we have some cooler weather in the forecast. They say, and I’m hoping they are right, that Saturday will be in the 70’s, like 74 for a high. The rest of the days over the next 5 days will be in the low 80’s.

Finally some cooler weather.

But like it or not, it also means we’ve gone from triple digits just a couple of weeks ago, to the 90’s, down to the 80’s in well less than a month. I won’t call that bad, but I will say it doesn’t give a lot of time for plants to adjust to the temperature change. I really do think we are getting dramatic changes in short time periods. Welcome to the new normal?

The weather forecasters didn’t lie! We got rain. It has not been a hard rain, but a light drizzle rain, the kind that soaks into the soil. The temperature has also dropped. I can’t call it cold, but at 9:30pm its 73 degrees here. That is much better than what we’ve been dealing with. Maybe, just maybe, autumn is on its way!

Last week was a nice week of weather. And yet last night parts of central Texas came under Tornado watch. I’m not sure if tornadoes touched down, I’m not finding information. I’ll keep looking.

But today it warm. It’s now just after noon and we’ve already hit 86 in the back yard. To make it even nicer we have high humidity. We’re forecast to hit about 94 today, with tomorrow another 90 degree day. Yes, that is a bit above our normal temperature, but two days from now, on Wednesday we should be down to 77, about our norm. Then the end of the week we should drop down into the mid 60’s.

So how are the plants taking this. That’s a good question. I’m sure some are not happy. But I can say my peas, including snow peas, are producing.

Remember, since I’m planning on moving, I haven’t planted much. The peas are in pots I can take with me when I move. But seed that was left over in the taken down planters are still growing. Actually the carrot tops are getting bigger. Which is amazing since I no longer have a watering system up to water them.

And for all the times they have been saying we’ll get rain here, we have had heavy mist, but not much in the way of coming down from the sky type of rain. It has been measurable mist, the other day it was 0.20 inches of mist/rain. But we’d still like more precipitation.

This wild temperature swing seems to be how central Texas weather seems to be rolling now. Will it continue this way? I have no idea. We shall see.

Meanwhile, welcome to central Texas weather. If you don’t like it, wait a bit, it will change.